Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
From the MAKE Flickr pool – Member Ncgoth mounted a piezo contact mic on a bow used for upright bass. The results are delicate and detailed. –Link “Bowlistening” sample –Link Musical instruments are great candidates for modding. Adding functionality and novelty to a tool used specifically for personal expression is n excellent way revitalize creativity. […]
Fivefish.net DIY has a ton of great mic preamp kits for your music makers out there – Link.
I am visiting Sundance Film Festival with Graffiti Research Lab where GRL premiered Graffiti Research Lab: the Complete First Season. Besides spending a lot of time freezing outside with Laser Tag, GRL also debuted the Beat Case. The Beat Case is a portable audio system built to help the Palestinian rappers Dam and PR, here […]
Who said you can’t make square waves in the pool? MAKE Flickr Pool member Rob Cruickshank created this nifty waterproof Atari Punk Console, utilizing his own custom weatherproof potentiometer design. –Link Related: Atari Punk Console schematics – Link Atari Punk Console in a Light Bulb – Link
It really doesn’t get any more than simple than this, hook up a LED to some speakers, crank it up and watch the blinky – Link.
JMG writes in – Here it is, the first project that I designed and executed on my own. I’m thinking of calling it the Trinome, but that’s still up in the air. The monome is a gorgeous, minimalist, open-source light-and-button pad used primarily by musicians as a controller. The folks over at SparkFun Electronics, inspired […]
Here’s a neat gadget and cool idea for a (re)make, instead of tossing the iPod packaging, use it as a speaker! – Bird-Electron presents this one and only Recycling Speaker for iPod. The dimension is exactly the same as the plastic package for iPod Nano (1st & 2nd Gen.) and iPod Shuffle (2nd & 3rd […]
